Analysis of Antigone-John Anoulih
Plot Overview
The Chorus introduces the players. Antigone is the girl who will rise up alone and die young. Haemon, Antigone's dashing fiancé, chats with Ismene, her beautiful sister. Though one would have expected Haemon to go for Ismene, he inexplicably proposed to Antigone on the night of a bal....
Antigone
Antigone
Antigone was produced in 441B.C. by the Greek play writer Sophocles, who was born in 496 BC at Colonus, near Athens. Unlike his younger contemporary, the often-misunderstood Euripides, Sophocles had the fortune of being revered for his genius during his own lifetime. He lived to the ripe ....
Antigone: Heroine or Fool
Antigone
Heroine or Fool?
The rope snaps strait, tightening and straining with the weight of a human underneath. A knife slices into a body and blood pours onto the ground. Antigone hangs from a single rope, Heamons body in a bloody heap next to her feet. Both are lifeless, both are d....
Antigone: Tragic Hero
Antigone: Tragic Hero
In Antigone, a Greek tragedy, Sophocles continues with the Oedipus trilogy and further develops the character of Oedipus daughter Antigone. Throughout the story Antigone begins to display many of the traits of a Tragic Greek hero. There are three main traits that she di....
Antigone:Heroine or Fool
Antigone: Heroine or Fool
Tragic heroes are generally people of high social stature with a tragic flaw that usually manifests itself in the form of poor judgment and arrogance, condemning the hero to a disastrous end and establishing the characters destiny. In Sophocle....
Socrates - Line in the Sand
Socrates once said, Let him that would move the world first move himself. Theorists, historians and authors have all spent centuries trying to set the boundaries of justifiable civil disobedience and the relationship between the people and their government. It is a question that has many consid....
The characteristics of Antigone: Caesar
The Characteristics of Antigone
Antigone is a play about a brave hearted woman who defys the king of Thebes to give her brother, Polynices, a proper burial. Sophocles portrays the main character, Antigone, as a women of strength who is strong willed and is not afraid to take chances and st....
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